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Prexy

noun
1.
The head administrative officer of a college or university.  Synonym: president.






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"Prexy" Quotes from Famous Books



... told me, this afternoon," Lydia went on, "and I laughed at him at first. I thought he was teasing me. Why only high-brows belong to the Scholars' Club! Prexy belongs and the best of the professors and only a few of the post-graduate pupils. But he says I was elected. I told him lots of students had higher standings than I, and he only laughed and said he knew it. And I've ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow

... take me for?" was Lola's derisive reply when Natalie asked her for the third time to try to bring the contest about. "I'd just as soon ask Prexy Matthews to dye his hair pink as to ask those snippies to give a Beauty parade. Kiss yourself good-bye, Nat. You didn't win it last year. ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... played a mean trick on "Prexy" by pasting some of the leaves of his Bible together. He rose to read the morning lesson, which might have ...
— Best Short Stories • Various



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